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title	:	The Narrative Forms of Southern Community Southern Literary Studies
author	:	Romine, Scott.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	080712401X
print isbn13	:	9780807124017
ebook isbn13	:	9780585280851
language	:	English
subject	American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin,--1790-1870.--Georgia scenes, Kennedy, John Pendleton,--1795-1870.--Swallow barn, Page, Thomas Nelson,--1853-1922.--In ole Virginia, Percy, William Alexander,--1885-194
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	PS261.R53 1999eb
ddc	:	813.009/975
subject	:	American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin,--1790-1870.--Georgia scenes, Kennedy, John Pendleton,--1795-1870.--Swallow barn, Page, Thomas Nelson,--1853-1922.--In ole Virginia, Percy, William Alexander,--1885-194

Page i Southern Literary Studies Fred Hobson, Editor

Page v The Narrative Forms of Southern Community Scott Romine

Page vi Copyright 1999 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1 Designer: Michele Myatt Quinn Typeface: A Caslon Typesetter: Crane Composition, Inc. Printer and binder: Edwards Brothers, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Romine, Scott. The narrative forms of Southern community / Scott Romine. p. cm. (Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-2401-X (cl : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8071-2527-X (p : alk. paper) 1. American fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2. Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 17901870. Georgia scenes. 3. Kennedy, JOhn Pendleton, 17951870. Swallow barn. 4. Page, Thomas Nelson, 18531922. In ole Virginia. 5. Percy, William Alexander, 18851942. Lanterns on the levee. 6. Faulkner, William, 18971962. Light in August. 7. Southern StatesIn literature. 8. Community in literature. 9. Narration (Rhetoric) 10. Literary form. 11. Autobiography. I. Title. II. Series. PS261.R53 1999 813.009'975dc21 99-14905 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Page vii For my parents, Donna and Jerry Romine

Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 Negotiating Community Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes 24 2 The Plantation Community John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn and Thomas Nelson Page's In Ole Virginia 65 3 The Aesthetics of Community William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee 112 4 Narrating the Community Narrating William Faulkner's Light in August 149 Epilogue: Whence the Community? Some Thoughts on Contemporary Southern Fiction 196 Bibliography 213 Index 223

Page xi Acknowledgments First and warmest thanks to Professors Fred Hobson, Julius Rowan Raper, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Weldon Thornton, Robert L. Phillips Jr., John Shelton Reed, and Kimball King for reading all or part of this manuscript at various stages. Their insights, suggestions, and expertise have been invaluable. A Summer Excellence Research Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro was helpful in providing time to complete this project. Thanks also to my colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, especially Michael Parker, Russ McDonald, Gail McDonald, Mary Ellis Gibson, and Stephen Yarbrough, for various e-mail correspondence, conversations in the hallway, and offhand insights that have, in one way or another, affected my thinking about the issues raised in this book. An earlier version of chapter 1 was published as "Negotiating Community in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes" in Style 30, no. 1 (spring 1996): 127; and an earlier version of chapter 3 was published as "The Levee and the Garden: Will Percy's Pastoral Aesthetic in Lanterns on the Levee" in Southern Quarterly 35, no. 1 (fall 1996): 2942. Thanks to these journals and their editors, James M. Mellard and Stephen Flinn Young, for permission to reprint this material. My wife, Karen Weyler, has been willing to discuss ideas, read drafts of chapters, and mark them with copious amounts of red ink. Lastly, I would like to thank the late Professor Robert Bain, with whom I shared many conversations about southern literature that I value more and more as the years pass.

Page 1 Introduction In his chapter on William Faulkner in The History of Southern Literature, Cleanth Brooks writes that a "true community... is held together by manners and morals deriving from a commonly held view of reality."1 It is virtually a clich that this "true community" is central to southern literature; from the beginning of southern literary studies as an academic discipline, the community has served as a critical touchstone, perhaps most notably in the work of Brooks himself. And yet Brooks makes a mistake so obvious that, like Poe's purloined letter, it threatens to go unnoticed: the commonly held view of reality to which he refers is a fantasy and always has been. I take the very presence of mannerswhich are, after all, a way of deferring conflict on an everyday basisto indicate the fantastical nature of a social group that apprehends reality "as one." Manners might be said to produce a commonly held view of reality; they do not derive from it. Writers in the conservative tradition have tended to replicate Brooks's positivist tendencies without replicating his critical acumen, often creating an artificial division between the community's vices and its virtues, a division that allows the recuperation of the one and the repression of the other, as if, say, racial discrimination was an incidental flaw of the southern community circa 1930

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